We are our children’s first, and perhaps most important, teacher. However, if we get it right most of what teachers do is not actually ‘teaching’ as such, but ‘facilitating learning’. How much of what you know now did you learn by a parent or teacher lecturing you, and how...

As mentioned in an earlier post, we were fortunate enough to be sent some great books to review last week. The previous post dealt with the books for Toby’s age range (although both boys are thoroughly enjoying them). This post focuses on Ollie’s books – ‘Wake Up Do, Lydia...

We are a certified household of book lovers. I spent a large portion of my childhood with my nose in a book, and have been fortunate enough to have been able to work as a library assistant at times during my very varied work history. Matt (hubby) loves historic...

The sun has been kind enough to have visited our cloudy shores several times now, which has prompted the annual buying in of sunscreen. I used to try to only use products labelled as ‘eco-friendly’, ‘organic’ and ‘natural’ products on the kids, but the claims and counterclaims on such...